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Reflections on Country

Locality: Ballarat, Victoria

Phone: +61 418 837 943

Address: Po Box 592 Ballarat 3353 Ballarat, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Amazing to think we still have platypus after all we have thrown at them. Though common sense would question the platypus’s precarious future - streams cop so much of our societies neglect - street runoff, sewage, plastics, etc. #platypus #healthyrivers

25.01.2022 Waters of Gariwerd

24.01.2022 Ah the magic of the natural world, this gorgeous scaly wonder. Emblematic gem of a once phenomenally biodiverse grassland. Yes a grassland, was once so much more than a monoculture for wool. A grassland that contained lilies, orchids, herbs, Murnong Daisy, mosses and abundant soil.. a soil that after the sheep, become seriously compromised upon successive overstocking and drought. Love this photo - a tiny dino amid the seed heads of Kangaroo Grass. #biodiversity #VolcanicGrasslands #WorldLizardDay

21.01.2022 An epic Kimberley river flowing free. Able to recharge floodplain wetlands with wet season flows - think magpie geese and brolga countless, able to drive a powerful estuarine ecology when these waters meet the sea - think mud crabs, barramundi spawning. Think people and culture of sustainability for Millenia. Not if we divert flows for agriculture. For monied elites to make their profit.

21.01.2022 Join this group to support Kimberley group Gija people. WA Minister for Aboriginal Affairs needs to act and prosecute this mining company.

21.01.2022 We can do better Australia #threatened #rainforest #biodiversity #NSW

20.01.2022 Love NITV This is a great short doco on monuments telling ‘our’ history. Yes it’s time to rebalance the telling. #history

20.01.2022 Excellent! https://www.sbs.com.au//federal-inquiry-established-aborig

19.01.2022 LAKE DISAPPOINTMENT RENAMED KUMPUPINTIL LAKE A large lake, 300km east of Newman, in the Western Desert lands of the Martu people has had its name formally chang...ed. Kumpupintil (pronounced Goom-bu-pin-dil) Lake has been formally approved by Landgate, following a request from the traditional owners and the Western Desert Lands Aboriginal Corporation. The lake was named Lake Disappointment in 1896 by explorer Frank Hann who, having followed creeks that flowed inland in the hope of finding a freshwater lake, named it after the disappointment he felt. The lake is important to Martu people for spiritual and ceremonial reasons, as well as being an important place for water and traditional food. The name 'Kumpupintil' describes how the lake was made and is linked to a Martu creation story where Martu warriors fought mighty giants in an epic battle.

18.01.2022 Spectacular wetland in Gunbower Forest, Murray River - following environmental water

17.01.2022 Shameful stories of Australia’s presence in Afghanistan! Journalist Paul Daley notes it is, in the memorial’s own words to assist Australians to remember, interpret and understand the Australian experience of war and its enduring impact on Australian society. Bigger picture question -if the function of the War Memorial is this, then what about Frontier Wars? Or as it was known in Tasmania ‘The Black War’? Surely a war that goes to the very core of our nation - a war fought... on Australian soil. Granted Aboriginal people may not feel the Australian War Memorial is the most appropriate place, likely that numerous places are needed. To grow as a nation we need to own our history.

17.01.2022 "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. Loren Eiseley

14.01.2022 What a photo!!! Love it ::-) Rakali - our Aussie Otter

14.01.2022 This is Awesome!! The languages of Australia - wow! Very impressive Nathan Boyle - love it!

14.01.2022 If you are passionate about the natural world, wondered about how people connect to the natural world and therefore how can we be sustainable. How to connect people or reconnect people to the natural world? Love the ocean? Love the coast, a rockpool ramble? You must see this incredible film! Sublime storytelling through the wonder of a single female octopus, she lives amid a sublime garden - a biodiversity powerhouse, for a year we dive every single day in the Southern ocean ...near Capetown South Africa. I was blown away! The cinematography alone! Like the Great Barrier Reef and the Serengeti the film makers want the world to know about the Great African Kelp Forest. They have done brilliantly well. Sublime story telling, this story - a hymn for humanities future.

13.01.2022 Australia has been waiting a long time for this important film, recently screened in the Northern Territory's Arnhemland community of Gunbalanya. It is way past time Australia to own our history and mature as a nation, to look at our own stories, our tragic past. A nation built upon a war that we don't recognise - Frontier War fought on our own soil, from Tasmania to Arnhemland, from Sydney to the Pilbara's Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) and all country between.

12.01.2022 Badger Bates, a traditional owner from the Barka (Darling) River in NSW, has sent through this chilling warning to communities across the North Don’t let this... happen to you, Don’t let cotton farming kill your beautiful rivers like they did to mine. Cotton Kills Rivers let’s keep it out of the Territory

12.01.2022 Amazing chance to own some fabulous Kimberley Art - Bidding starts today All proceeds go to the fabulous Environs Kimberley https://app.galabid.com/environs/items *** Check it out**** #environskimberley in #broome#environskimberley in #broome Apologies the link doesnt show as a picture - so you have to go in an see how beautiful they are

11.01.2022 The Victorian Government needs to go back to the drawing board on the Western Highway duplication. Shameful decision by Federal 'Environment Minister' - no care for sacred birthing trees! No road is worth bulldozing thousands of years of Aboriginal heritage!

10.01.2022 Forest of Mt Cole worth protecting https://www.facebook.com/121782438413/posts/10157301785853414/?vh=e

08.01.2022 This is deadly! aka - awesome Let’s flatten the curve Work at being #COVID safe

07.01.2022 Huge congratulations to Yindjibarndi people in Pilbara

07.01.2022 Listen to a great podcast - ‘Living water’ We in our modern world take water for granted - such a precious gift in contrast it is central to Australia’s first people, and has been forever ... Healthy water -> Healthy people -> Healthy culture -> Healthy country #waterislife https://abclisten.page.link/TUuacYrEtDKuD7q89

06.01.2022 Way overdue - the renaming of this beautiful patch of Kimberley country. One of Andrew (Twiggy) Forrest’s colonial relatives in 1879 Alexander Forrest named the ranges after the brutal Belgian monarch King Leopold the 2nd. This king was a shameful European despot. His statue recently knocked to the ground in Belgium ... #blacklivesmatter

05.01.2022 Olympic Dam mine expansion dumped - very good news for the Great Artesian Basin!!! Expansion was to be extremely demanding of ancient water source - BHP was proposing to lock in 50 million Litres a day, every day for the next 25 years #WaterIsLife

03.01.2022 How amazing is this? ‘Volunteers’ respond to the sunken livestock ship Gulf Livestock 1 and 40 crew missing at sea. Pretty amazing what has come together in response. A team of volunteers combining ocean drift models with geospatial data and marine consultants to come up with areas to target with high resolution satellite cameras to feed back to AI computer models that can theoretically detect floating objects larger than 30 cm square at sea. Why are they still hopeful?... One lifeboat and 4 life rafts remain missing, and reports have emerged from the found survivors that all but three crew members were on the ship’s bridge prior to the boat sinking, preparing to board life vessels. All life vessels hold 20-30 people and include enough food & water rations to nourish a full vessel for 30 days. Share or support this crowd funding project. Phenomenal professionalism in this project to find 40 crew still missing. Money will go towards Satellite & Drone surveillance technology, chartered Search & Rescue vehicles, awareness media campaigns and search incentives. #GulfLivestock1 #searchandrescue #remotesensing

01.01.2022 Wow what a story